Year Labor Native Americans Big business Reform movements the West African-Americans Asian-Americans
1869 Knights of Labor founded            
1872     Credit Mobilier scandal        
1876   Little Bighorn National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (aka National League) organized        
1877 great railroad strike Nez Perce Munn v. Illinois     end of Reconstruction  
1879   Carlisle School founded   Henry George, Progress and Poverty       
1881   Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor           
1882             Chinese Exclusion Act
1886 Haymarket Strike; AFL founded   Wabash v. Illinois   Geronimo surrenders to US Army    

1887

    Interstate Commerce Act   Dawes Act    
1888       Bellamy, Looking Backward      
1890   Wounded Knee Sherman Anti-Trust Act        
1892 Homestead Strike     Populists propose Omaha platform      
1893         Turner presents Frontier Thesis    
1894 Pullman Strike     Coxey's Army marches on DC; Congress passes a 2% income tax that applies only to Americans earning more than $4000      
1895 US v. E.C. Knight; in re Debs     in Pollock v Farmers Trust Co., the Supreme Court rules 5-4 that the previous year's income tax is a direct tax and therefore unconconstitutional. Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent (though not as famous as his dissent in Plessy the next year) complains that the court has turned provisions "originally designed to protect the slave property [into] privileges and immunities never contemplated by the founders."   Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address; Ida Wells-Barnett, A Red Record  
1896         William Jennings Bryan's presidential campaign unites Populists and Democrats; "cross of gold" speech Plessy v Ferguson  
1899       Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class      
1903           DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk  
1905 Lochner v NY; reversed by Muller v Oregon (1908)            
1906           Niagara Movement  
1907             Gentlemen's Agreement
1909           NAACP founded  
Gilded Age Timeline

key: labor; Native Americans; big business; reform movement; the West; African-Americans; Asian-Americans

1869 Knights of Labor founded

1872 Credit Mobilier scandal

1876 Little Bighorn; National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (aka today's National League) organized

1877 Nez Perce; end of Reconstruction; Munn v Illinois; Great Railroad Strike

1879 Carlisle School founded; Henry George, Progress and Poverty

1881 Jackson, A Century of Dishonor

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

1886 Haymarket Strike; AFL founded; Wabash v Illinois; Geronimo surrenders to US army

1887 Dawes Act; Interstate Commerce Act

1888 Bellamy, Looking Backward

1890 Wounded Knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1892 Homestead Strike; Populists propose Omaha platform

1893 Turner presents frontier thesis

1894 Pullman Strike; Coxey's Army marches on DC; Congress passes a 2% income tax that applies only to Americans earning more than $4000

1895 US v EC Knight; Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address; Wells-Barnett, A Red Record; in re Debs; in Pollock v. Farmers Trust Co., Supreme Court rules 5-4 that the previous year's income tax is a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional. Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent (his dissent in Plessy the next year is more famous) complains that the court has turned provisions "originally designed to protect the slave property [into] privileges and immunities never contemplated by the founders."

1896 Bryan's campaign; "cross of gold" speech; Plessy v Ferguson

1899 Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class

1903 DuBois, Souls of Black Folk

1905 Lochner v NY

1906 Niagara Movement

1907 Gentlemen's Agreement

1909 NAACP